After twenty years of experience as a commercial illustrator and 3D artist, Donna Bates, a native from Southern California, has evolved into a career in oil painting. She is known for her own mash-up style of urban, tough-chic edgy strong independent women and men or “Badasses”. Her subjects aren't pin-ups nor portraits, they are a different vision of power and sex flavored with leather, metal, graffiti, sunglasses and fantasy!

Aixa Oliveras is a contemporary symbolist painter who creates narratives based on her own cultural experiences. Aixa has participated in several group exhibitions including 33 Contemporary in Chicago, IL, Abend Gallery in Denver, CO and MIFA Gallery in Miami, FL. Her work has been featured in American Art Collector and Poets&Artists Magazine. She was also a finalist in the Art Renewal Center’s 14th Annual International Salon Competition. Three of her works will be included in the Lunar Codex, a collection of images that will be archived on the Moon. Born in Puerto Rico, Aixa holds an MFA from Laguna College of Art and Design and a BFA Magna Cum Laude, from the School of Plastic Arts and Design in Puerto Rico. Aixa is currently developing her studio practice in Miami, FL.

Killion Huang currently lives and works in his native China, after having earned his BFA from the New York School of Visual Arts in 2022. Inspired by Old Masters like Matisse, Bonnard, and Jamie Wyeth, as well as contemporary figures TM Davy, Louis Fratino, and Oscar Yi Hou, Huang's figurative paintings reflect his experience as a queer artist in New York City. His intimate portrayals capture everyday moments within the LGBTQ+ community, offering a glimpse into his journey from a conservative Chinese background. Huang's artistic practice seeks to amplify the under-represented queer community and culture globally, emphasizing the importance of community in the context of queer identity and giving voice to the marginalized.

Narelle Zeller is an Australian representational portrait and figurative oil painter. Her refined oil paintings explore the beauty of the human condition and our environment, drawing inspiration from the people around her and her own personal life experiences. She aims to capture an honest and authentic representation of her subject and stir the viewer to question and connect to the personal and individual story behind each painting. Her paintings are found in the permanent collection of the Art Renewal Center as well as private collections. She recently exhibited in Figurativas at the European Museum of Modern Art.

Rose Freymuth-Frazier is a first generation American artist, born and raised in a small gold rush town nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California.

Annie Louise Goldman (b. 2003) is a figurative oil painter based in Southern California and a BFA student at the Laguna College of Art and Design.

Rebecca Leveille Guay is a contemporary artist working in a figurative mode. Freely mining both art historical sources, magical surrealism/ fantasy iconography and contemporary cultural imagery.

Brad Robson (b. 1976) is a painter and muralist. Originally from Sydney, Australia, his art can be seen worldwide. With multi-story works adorning buildings in Berlin, Los Angeles, New York and Barcelona, Robson leaves a growing impression on the art world. For his gallery works, Robson paints exclusively with oils. With exhibitions in the UK, Europe, Australia and the US, he is fast building a reputation as one of the most exciting new painters in the contemporary scene.

Lavely Miller draws from her background in clinical mental health to paint vivid and unsettling large-scale portraits exploring the effects of trauma and suffering. The gaze of Miller’s subjects in works such as Flowers on Her Shoulder (2020) or September (2019) is direct and confrontational, but also vulnerable, suggestive of great internal grief and self-reflection. In lieu of live models, Miller paints from a library of reference images, sometimes creating composite images from multiple sources and portraying faces which are utterly unique but who represent a shared universal experience. Working directly with her fingers instead of a brush, Miller paints on paper-covered canvas, applying layer after layer of acrylic paint and transparent glaze; this process imbues her images with textural depth and an aged quality reminiscent of Renaissance portraiture.

Lorena Lepori's figurative oil paintings have a narrative based on the representation of feminine figures beyond gender, relating to everybody who can express the power of femininity. She uses cross-dressing to reach out and create iconic alter egos to expand and embrace a hidden part of her models’ personality through look transformation. She relies on myths, fairytales and clichés challenging the traditional representation of the matters, re-introducing them in a contemporary setting, mixing old and new symbols to relate more with universal concepts.

Jillian Evelyn’s paintings combine the contorted female figure with graphic shapes and a limited color palette. Her work explores the struggle of womanhood and the anxiety that arises from societal expectations.

Megan Elizabeth Read (b. 1982) is an American figurative artist living and working in Charlottesville, Virginia. Largely self-taught, she now works almost exclusively in oil with pieces ranging from small still life to large scale paintings mostly focusing on the female form. Mae grew up in rural Virginia where she spent most of her time exploring the fields and farmland around her home or drawing for hours on end, both of which were clearly formative. After living in Los Angeles in her early 20’s she returned to Virginia and after many years working in the tech field she finally began making space for drawing and painting again and this has since become her sole focus.

June Sira is a gifted Norwegian painter whose works have featured in exhibitions, prizes and publications across Norway, Switzerland, China and the UK. Inspired by life and everyday reflections, she creates paintings characterized by rich interior landscapes, compositional confidence and a distinctive stillness.

One of the most lauded figurative painters working today, Kerry James Marshall challenges the marginalization of African Americans with canvases that both revere and subvert the Western canon. The artist’s extensive knowledge of art history, including Black folk art, contributes to the formal rigor of his compositions.

Hilda Palafox paints elegant, commanding women with outsized bodies in compositions that envision a matriarchal society. Trained in graphic design, Palafox is best known for large-scale canvases in which these women are accompanied by symbols like snakes, vessels, columns, and celestial orbs.

Ross F. Littell (July 14, 1924 – April 17, 2000) was an American textile and furniture designer known for his practical, innovative, and minimalist style as part of the Good Design movement of the 1950s. His three-legged T-chair, designed in 1952 with William Katavolos and Douglas Kelley, is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, along with the Art Institute of Chicago.

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YE FAN (Chinese, b.1986) After earning a degree in Marketing from Pepperdine University in 2010, she began working in the live entertainment industry in Asia, overseeing regional sponsorship for acts including the Rolling Stones, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry, Sir Elton John, Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, and others. During this period, she also photographed Metallica on their second tour of Asia.

Tim Okamura (born 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Japanese Canadian artist known for his contemporary realist portraits that combine graffiti and realism. His work has been on the cover of Time Magazine and has been featured in several major motion pictures. Okamura's paintings are featured in major permanent collections around the world such as London's National Portrait Gallery and Washington DC's National Portrait Gallery. He was also one of several artists to be shortlisted in 2006 for a proposed portrait of Queen Elizabeth of England.

Gregory Prescott is an emerging, self-taught photographer residing in Los Angeles, CA. His work consists of an array of photographs of portraits, humans adorned and the human form.